By VOA News WASHINGTON – Facebook on Monday said it will apply lessons learned from America’s 2016 election to prevent manipulation of its platforms in the 2020 presidential contest. In a press release, Facebook said it is working to combat «Inauthentic Behavior» on its applications — a phenomenon widely documented in 2016 that has continued in years […]readmore
VOA News By Reuters WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday defended the social media company’s light regulation of speech and lack of fact checking on political advertising, while citing China’s censorship as a roadblock to operating in the country. Facebook has been under fire in recent years for its lax approach […]readmore
VOA News Facebook said Tuesday it had been unable to determine who was behind dozens of fake accounts it took down shortly before the 2018 U.S. midterm elections. “Combined with our takedown last Monday, in total we have removed 36 Facebook accounts, 6 Pages, and 99 Instagram accounts for coordinated inauthentic behavior,” Nathaniel Gleicher, head […]readmore
VOA News Remember all those viral videos of people dumping cold water all over themselves to raise awareness about Lou Gehrig’s Disease, or ALS? It turns out it actually did a lot of good by funding six research efforts. It was 2014, and it was called the Ice Bucket Challenge. While initially dismissed as a […]readmore
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